‘We’re going to see the rabbit’ We are going to see the rabbit. We are going to see the rabbit.…
We pay through the nose for subjecting of foes. Abroad we're defeated, at home, we 're cheated. The ides of…
In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men,…
Epitaph on a Tyrant Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy…
What Kinds of Times are These by Adrienne Rich There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass…
A Facebook friend wanted some crowd-sourcing help for a piece she was editing. Her query asked readers to end the…
The Journey by Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices…
Subway Rush Hour by Langston Hughes Mingled breath and smell so close mingled black and white so near no room…
Coming by Philip Larkin On longer evenings, Light, chill and yellow, Bathes the serene Foreheads of houses. A thrush sings,…
Stalin’s Heirs by Yevgeny Yevtushenko Mute was the marble. Mutely glimmered the glass. Mute stood the sentries, bronzed by the…
If you went to school in the UK anytime in the last sixty years then you will probably be familiar…
Muriel Rukeyser wrote this in 1968. Read it and tell me it doesn't feel like she is writing for this…
What an intriguing idea: Reversing time to see your younger self moving forward in time as you move backward. What…
Thaw by Edward Thomas Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw…
Not a very effective way to get children to love school and enjoy math. But looks like it was an…